<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> De :</span></b> Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk><br> </font><br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font>Many
of the buildings moving away from the one identified simply do not even
fit the footprint on the bing imagery ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What make you so sure that the thruth is in imagery and not in cadastre ? particulary considering that Bing is often several year late and that offical french maps (IGN) are also relying on cadastre for building ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">There are a lot of examples of places where there are some buiding referenced in cadastre that do not appear in Bing but that you can see IRL.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">You will decide to remove them because you they are not on Bing or you will trust local contributors that introduce them because they know they are real ?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">how do you make the difference between the guy that has the knowledge and the one that has not ?<br></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font></span>Now that I have scanned some of the French
material I must say that it is of very low quality and all of the stuff I
have reviewed needs at least SOME work to bring it up to a better
standard.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font></span>At best all one can say currently is 'there are some buildings
round about here' ... and stripping unsubstantiated detail would at
least be a start.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">According to the way you say that I assume that you have directly check in IRL or perform a comparison with a better quality and reliable source to decide that the wole cadastre is of very low quality...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Could you share with us you criteria and methodology to be so affirmative and allow us to determine which details are unsubstantiated ?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After all we are just mappers that concentrate
on part of world where we are living and that we know, if I remember well this is the base of Openstreetmap crowdsourcing ?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><br><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cheers</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Julien<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><br></div><div><br> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
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